To my ears, his voice was more appropriate for the role than the rest of the cast.
Donald
> On Jan 27, 2018, at 8:32 PM, Vesna Danilovic <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Lucic was brash, unpolished and barked a lot."
>
>
> While I'm sure that's how he sounded to your ears, incidentally that's also
> a popular charge routinely repeated verbatim by Lucic's detractors. (I
> never understood the hate toward him.) I'm afraid I must disagree and to me
> he was anything but ... I am totally with Katie and Idia about his fine
> Scarpia. I can't say I was always enthusiastic about every single role he
> did, but today his performance, as heard and seen in HD, was nuanced,
> polished (absolutely not a single "bark" to my ears), and dramatically
> effective.
>
> Vesna
>
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